A fairly academic collection of essays about the uncanny in gardens - ghosts, fairy sightings, nasty things in orchards if not woodsheds... who knew that 'ecogothic studies' is a Thing? M R ... read more
A sumptuous volume on the so-called father of English geology, replete with Smith's own remarkable hand-coloured maps, stratigraphies, Sowerby's fossil illustrations, and photographs. Very l... read more
A selection of Milne's essays from 1910-1952: lively, entertaining glimpses into a lost world of errant hats, dodgy plumbing, cheap cigars, loony maids, pacifism, etc.
A lovely clothbound thing from Slightly Foxed, whose taste is unerring. Hudson has been compiling these for forty years, and worked with John Murray on the latter's own famously delicious co... read more
A neat bit of historical detective work enabled the author of 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' to identify Becket's Anglo-Saxon Psalter, which he may have been holding when he was murd... read more
A biographical account of Eliot's troubled first wife, presented alongside her writings. Married to T.S. Eliot in 1915, their marriage lasted until about 1933. Her circle included Ottoline M... read more
H is for hawk-eyed: Helen MacDonald follows her sensational memoir with a collection of essays about the world around her.
NB Publication of this book has been delayed. Publishing sched... read more
An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more
Blaise Pascal famously said that "all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone".
In 1790 a young French aristocrat living in Turin was confined to a ... read more
Blaise Pascal famously said that 'all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone".
In 1790 a young French aristocrat living in Turin is confined to a ... read more
Stoppard's new play is a major event. Set in the Jewish quarter of Vienna during the first 50 years of the C20th, it is regarded as his most personal play to date.
Stoppard's new play is a major event. Set in the Jewish quarter of Vienna during the first 50 years of the C20th, it is regarded as his most personal play to date.
The late CB specialized in identifying patterns (eg The Seven Basic Plots). Here he examines three sets of ‘in-group’ attitudes that he believed to be increasingly pervasive, and dangero... read more
A labour of love and scholarship, this is a study of the extraordinary Royal Library of Dom Joao V (1706-1750) of Portugal that was destroyed in 1755 in the Lisbon earthquake. The library co... read more